Being a creative has it’s benefits, when you get married you get to design your own wedding stationery. Designer and illustrator Nathan Miller pulls it off and we think this invitation is just great. A confident mix of typefaces and illustration printed two colours on our Heidelberg platens. The invites are 140 x 210mm and letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.
Design © Nathan Miller
Posted:
April 15th, 2013
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, debossed, heidelberg, illustration, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, white |
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A striking business card from our archives for Gareth Coxon at Dot Design. Printed 2 colours both sides on our Heidelberg platens and die cut to shape. Gareth carefully placed the design elements on each side to avoid any overlapping. The cards are printed on 425gsm cotton.
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December 7th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, die cutting, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm |
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A4 limited edition prints for Paul Head at Network. Letterpress printed 2 colours on Saunders 425gsm cotton.
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November 30th, 2012
| Category: Letterpress Posters, Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, heidelberg, letterpress, limited edition, saunders 425gsm, typography |
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We have collaborated with Ammo Magazine and illustrator Nick Deakin to produce this limited edition letterpress print. Nick’s bold line work makes a wonderful impression into Saunders 425gsm cotton, chosen for it’s weight and texture.
We converted Nick’s digital artwork to colour separations, outputted to film and made our photopolymer plates. The smallest detail in the illustration is transferred faithfully to the plates which are mounted on aluminum bases to type height and locked up in the chase. We printed each plate/colour simultaneously on 2 Heidelberg platens achieving accurate registration. Nick supplied Pantone colour refs and the inks were hand mixed to match.
The A5, 2 colour print is signed by the artist and comes with latest lumberjack themed magazine. The print is limited to 500 so be quick!
Posted:
November 27th, 2012
| Category: Hot off the press, Letterpress Posters, Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, free, heidelberg, illustration, letterpress, photopolymer, red, saunders 425gsm |
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Can it really be a over year since we printed this! Another invitation from our archives showing the beautiful effect of printing with a tint.
Letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.
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September 7th, 2012
| Category: Letterpress Stationery, Letterpress Techniques, Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, debossed, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, tint, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, white |
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Here’s another wedding invitation from our archives. Featuring hand drawn elements and a beautiful beautiful choice of colours. Letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.
Designed by Aled Lewis.
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April 25th, 2012
| Category: Wedding Stationery, typography
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, hand drawn, heidelberg, illustration, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography |
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You can often hear The Raconteurs blasting through the print room here at blush°° so you can imagine how thrilled we were when asked to print the invitation for the inaugural playing of Jack White’s Blunderbuss.
The invitations were letterpress printed on a Heidelberg platen onto 425gsm cotton paper.
Design by XL Recordings & Third Man Records
Posted:
April 23rd, 2012
| Category: Hot off the press, Letterpress Stationery, Postcards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, blunderbuss, cotton paper, heidelberg, invitation, jack white, letterpress, saunders 425gsm, the raconteurs, white |
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Letterpress printing onto 425gsm cotton paper creates beautiful, tactile wedding stationery. Printed onto 425gsm 100% cotton paper. Design © Julia & Anthony Iredale.
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December 20th, 2011
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, heidelberg, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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These Save the Dates look striking with no colour. Letterpress printed using as transparent white ink to enhance the deboss into the soft cotton paper.
Designed by www.mockupdesigns.co.uk and letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.
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August 8th, 2011
| Category: Hot off the press, Letterpress Techniques, Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, debossed, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm, Wedding Stationery, white |
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We will be having an Easter Egg Hunt on our blog over the Easter weekend. The first to find the hidden egg will win 100 letterpress business cards – completely free!
The hunts will be held on Good Friday, 22/04/2011 and Easter Sunday, 24/04/2011 at no specific time. The start of the hunts will be announced on Twitter. The egg will be a link hidden somewhere on this blog. Click the link and an email will open up, write your name and address on the email and click send. The first email to arrive in our special Easter inbox wins.
We will print your own design (you to supply print ready artwork) or you can choose to use a design from our range of our popular business cards.
Print Specification
100 business cards
85 x 55mm (landscape or portrait)
1 colour black / 1 side
425gsm 100% cotton paper
Print ready artwork supplied
Creating your artwork
The print area is 85 x 55mm, landscape or portrait. Artwork must be supplied as a print ready PDF or Illustrator .ai or .eps file format. Please ensure all fonts are converted to outlines. You can also supply a Photoshop .psd file, please don’t rasterize any fonts and include the font with your file. Spot colour only, no tints, shades or gradients.
Posted:
April 22nd, 2011
| Category: Twitter Treats
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, cotton paper, letterpress, saunders 425gsm, Twitter, twittertreats |
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These charming business cards were designed by Cutter & Savage and printed black both sides on our Heidelberg platens. The paper is 425gsm 100% cotton and enhances the nostalgic feel to the cards.
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March 18th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, business card, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm, vintage |
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Letterpress coasters and business cards for Fontdeck designed by Clearleft. The 2 colour coasters are printed onto a quality 1200mic beermat board. This board is great for letterpress as the soft fibres take a lovely deep impression. The coasters were finished with die cut rounded corners. We also printed a 2 colour business card onto 425gsm 100% cotton paper.
Posted:
March 2nd, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Ephemera
Tags: 100% cotton paper, business card, coasters, cotton paper, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm |
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Lightbulb are a design consultancy with bright ideas looking for a print finish to give their business cards another dimension. The design was created for letterpress and the black and grey ink sinks deep into the 425gsm pure cotton paper. The focal point though is the debossed lightbulb, certain to draw attention when handed out. A deboss clearly shows the impression letterpress can make into the paper, leaving a beautiful tactile finish only possible with this amazing technique.
Posted:
October 26th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, cotton paper, debossed, grey, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, white |
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Our recent Twitter Treat has resulted in a superb business card. Will of Desypha was the lucky winner and had the fantastic opportunity to get his business card design letterpress printed for free. The print specs were simple – the card had to be 55 x 85mm and one colour black. We used 425gsm Saunders 100% cotton paper, a beautiful paper perfect for a deep impression.
If you would like receive special offers, news, freebies or the chance to enter our next Twitter treat be sure to follow us on Twitter!
Posted:
July 29th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards, Hot off the press, Twitter Treats
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black and white, business card, cotton paper, debossed, follower, free, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, Twitter, typography |
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We enjoyed designing and printing this wild floral wedding invitation. The request was for a vintage looking wild flower illustration with clean and simple typography.
Letterpress printed on our vintage Heidelberg presses onto our favourite paper at the moment, 425gsm Saunders 100% cotton paper and supplied with luxurious Zerkall envelopes. The silver and lilac ink compliment each other beautifully.
Dimensions: A5 (148 x 210mm)
Posted:
July 27th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, heidelberg, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, wild floral |
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This TwitterTreat is now closed. The winner has been announced.
See the winning cards here.
Our new Twitter Treat is the opportunity to bag yourself 100 free letterpress business cards. We have a press sheet gap coming up and we want to give one of our followers the chance to fill it with their design.
Your business cards will be printed on our vintage printing presses onto Somerset 300gsm 100% cotton paper. The ink colour is one colour – black. You will need to provide print ready artwork as a press quality PDF with all fonts converted to outlines.
PRINT SPECIFICATION
Print area = 85 x 55mm (landscape or portrait format)
1 x Ink colour = Black
Stock = Somerset 300gsm 100% cotton, White, Rough Textured
Quantity = 100
Artwork to be supplied via email as print ready PDF with all fonts converted to outlines.
We will randomly pick the winner from our list of followers at 5pm, Thursday 8th July 2010. The winner will be notified by DM on Twitter.
Here’s what you will need to do:
STEP 1
Follow us on Twitter!
STEP 2
Retweet this tweet
SOME RULES
This TwitterTreat is now closed. The winner has been announced. See the winning cards here.
Posted:
July 5th, 2010
| Category: Twitter Treats
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black and white, cotton paper, ephemera, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm, Twitter, white |
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Emily had seen our Chrysanthemum correspondence cards and greeting card and asked us to adapt the design to create her wedding invitation and menu card. We discussed preferred colour palettes and provided a couple of layout and colour variations for Emily’s approval. The invitations and menus are printed on heavy 425gsm 100% cotton paper in lime green and brown and were supplied with matching envelopes.
The chrysanthemum drawing is taken from an original pencil drawing by Blush’s very own Alison and was originally part of a range of greeting cards. We are often asked to adapt one of our greeting card designs into a range of wedding stationery.
Dimensions: A5 (148 x 210mm) Letterpress printed on our vintage printing presses.
Menu photo courtesy of Dandelion Gifts in Frodsham, Cheshire.
Posted:
June 17th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, brown, cotton paper, ink, invitation, letterpress, lime green, paper, saunders 425gsm, script, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, white |
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A beautiful combination of a swirling typeface, gold ink, cotton paper and letterpress printing resulted in this wedding stationery. Designed by Julia carefoot of Glorious Creative in Manchester and supplied by email for us to print. Julia looked into papers at the early stages of the project and had chosen a smooth board which we felt was not thick enough to enable us to achieve a deep impression on both sides of the cards. We advised Julia to go with a heavier pure cotton paper, Saunders 425gsm.
Wedding invitation, information card and a thank you card letterpress printed in gold ink on both sides of A6.
Posted:
June 15th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, gold ink, invitation, letterpress, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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Something we are getting asked to do more and more are limited edition letterpress prints. This wonderful illustration by Dutch artist Alice Kok was a delight to print. The flowing linework created a wonderful deep impression into the paper. Alice supplied her illustration via email and we suggested suitable papers. Saunders was perfect for these prints as it would allow a deep impression without the paper warping under the extreme pressures of the press.
Dimensions: 220 x 320mm, letterpress printed onto Saunders 425gsm 100% cotton paper, Black & red ink. Illustration © copyright Alice Kok.
The prints are available to buy direct from Alice at £25 each. Each print is numbered and signed of an limited edition of 50.
Posted:
June 10th, 2010
| Category: Letterpress Ephemera, Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, ephemera, illustration, letterpress, limited edition print, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm |
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John Henry called on blush°° to print his business cards. We discussed which papers would be most suitable as he wanted a really deep impression. After seeing John’s artwork we recommended Saunders 425gsm. A beautiful soft white cotton paper heavier than the average business card but not too thick to take up too much room in his wallet!
Getting the right amount of ink was critical for this design. We had to have enough coverage for the block at the top of the card without over inking the finer typography at the bottom.
Dimensions: 55 x 85mm
Letterpress printed on our vintage printing presses.
Designed by John Henry Donovan Tel: +353.86.8881880
This card has been featured on Card Observer and was also Card of the Month for June on CardNerd – thanks!
Posted:
May 25th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards, Hot off the press
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, debossed, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography, white |
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